Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first, all was as friendly as Scheherazade's smile. Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin hailed Britain'snew 20-year alliance with Iraq as the start of an era "regularizing and expressing the friendship between this country and the Arabic world." The treaty with Iraq confirmed Britain's right to-keep troops in Iraq, train and arm the Iraqi army, maintain airbases. Iraq's Regent Abdul Illah replied to a congratulatory message from Bevin: "I recall with appreciation your precious efforts that have led to this happy result...
Next day the crowds demonstrated again, to thank the Regent. One paper hailed "the martyrs of the treaty which Britain wrote with ink to bondage Iraq 20 years, and which Iraqis obliterated with blood in three days...
...Britain, where he had gone to sign the treaty, Prime Minister Saleh Jabr hopefully remarked that "during our temporary absence, some destructive elements in the country . . . exploited some innocent students and succeeded in creating disorders. On our return to Iraq we shall explain the ... treaty to Parliament and people...
...Iraq's twelve-year-old King Feisal, in Switzerland on a winter vacation, went skiing at Villars, broke his left...
From outside the Continental U.S.A. came 28 students, representing Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, England. Greece, Guatemale, Hawaiian Islands, India, Iraq, Italy, Mexico, Palestine, the Philippines, South Africa, and Venezuela...